"We're protesting because of high prices of milk, meat and now petrol," 48-year-old Hassan Marrakchi said.

Ahmed Assid, Amazigh activist, criticized the attempts of Islamists in Morocco to infiltrate women's rights organizations to make them obedient to Islamist associations, replacing the demands of women with their own demands.

Chanting, the "people want the fall of the government" and calling for the departure of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, the activists marched through the colonial-era streets of downtown Rabat in a light rain.

The problem with Benkirane's denial is that not only does his Justice and Development Party look and sound like the other Islamist fronts for the Brotherhood in the region, and it is widely known as the local Brotherhood franchise, but the Muslim Brotherhood's own site described the JDP as its offshoot in an article with the topic "MB Around the World."